Ceylon Planters’ Society - CPS

Ceylon Planters’ Society - CPS To Secure and promote the personal and professional interests of members in order to improve the ind D.E. Hamilton as its first Chairman. Mr.

The Ceylon Planters’ Society (CPS) was set up in 1936 as the trade union of the planters with Mr. During the days of the British rule, it was not easy for any union to organize and survive itself. CPS too had to be planned in secret, as Planters as paid servants too came under a merciless hire and fire scheme. Naturally, Planters then did not openly like to say they had a ‘union’ as it was conside

red a dirty word; it is so even up to now. Some of the most prominent personalities in the CPS were Rodney de Mel, Ranajan Weijeratne and Roger Sommervile. Ranjan Wijeratne later became the country’s Defence Secretary and died under tragic circumstances.

09/12/2019

At long last, as one of the most important, socially and economically beneficial decisions was made by the newly elected President, His Excellency Gotabhaya Rajapaksa, recently to appoint a high profile Selection Committee to pick Chairpersons and Board members for state owned commercial entities, s...

15/03/2019
08/02/2019

Robert Bruce, a Scotsman who came to India to supply weapons, discovered that Assamese tea was better than Chinese tea.

27/01/2019

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40/1, Sri Dhammadara Mawatha
Ratmalana

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Monday 09:00 - 17:00
Tuesday 09:00 - 17:00
Wednesday 09:00 - 17:00
Thursday 09:00 - 17:00
Friday 09:00 - 17:00
Saturday 09:00 - 15:00

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